Chapter 55 : Ravishingly Dressed in Ladies’ Wear (1)
“Mmm, sure. Anyway, let’s get out of here first and see.” In the present situation, wherever she went was the same to her.
Hence, they went on their way immediately, making their way towards the Rock Forest Town.
Two days later. Rock Forest Town
Guan Xi Lin’s torn and tattered clothes were still covered in blood, his considerably good looking face was heavily smudged with dirt and filth. Added to the fact that his arms were huge and muscular, he looked every inch just like a savage.
As for Feng Jiu, the white shirt she was wearing had turned to grey and her face was covered with the herbal juice. She was covered in filth and dirt, looking no different from a dirty beggar.
These two people walked into the Rock Forest Town and they had naturally elicited quite a number of stares filled with disdain where even the people who passed them would try their best to avoid them, afraid to come into any contact.
“The atmosphere within a town is so different!” Feng Jiu exclaimed as she drew in a deep breath, which only made her smell all the fragrant scents of the different kinds of food that fully permeated the air.
“Little Jiu, we will need to go have a change of clothes first. Or no matter the inns or any other places would never allow us in.” Guan Xi Lin said, tugging at the tattered clothes hanging from his body.
“Mmm. Let’s see if there are any shops selling ready made clothes nearby.” She said as she looked around them. Her eyes fell onto a spot a distance away and she immediately pulled Guan Xi Lin to walk towards it. “Over there. There is one there.”
“Wait wait wait wait.” He dragged her to a stop in a hurry before asking softly: “Little Jiu, do we have money? Without money, how are we going to buy clothes?”
Hearing that, she rolled her eyes and said: “Why would I have no money? Don’t worry, I have it.” After saying that, she jiggled the little bag hanging at her hip and said: “Come on! Not to mention one suit, even ten suits would be no problem.”
Hearing that she had money, Guan Xi Lin’s mouth split into a smile and the two of them walked together to go into the clothing shop.
“Big Brother, you wear this one! This one suits you.” She picked up a black long robe of a rather good quality and gave it to him to try it on.
“It’ll do. That will be the one.”
He had no objection to it and took the clothes to walk further in to try. After a short while, he came back out after changing and saw Feng Jiu picking out men clothes for herself which made him say: “Little Jiu, why are you choosing men’s clothes? We are back in town and you don’t need to dress as a man anymore. Wear a dress. Women should wear dresses that make them look prettier.”
Because, back home with his family, all the ladies loved to wear dresses and every time they made a purchase, it was always more than ten of them. That made him think his younger sister should also wear a dress and not always make herself look just like a little beggar.
“Men’s clothes are convenient.”
As she answered, she was just about to hand the several suits she had picked out to the shopkeeper when she found herself being dragged over to the ladies department where he called out to the shopkeeper: “Come here. Get me this one, this one, and that one and give them to my little sister.”
Watching him, Feng Jiu was torn between laughter and tears. But thinking on it a moment more, she gave in. They were now in a town and she doesn’t need to be dressed in beggar clothes, so what’s the harm in changing back to ladies’ wear?
“Bring me those suits over there in red!” She suddenly said to the shopkeeper who was standing at the side.
“Of course, of course.” The shopkeeper had not noticed that the little beggar was actually a girl but he still quickly brought over the red suits.
“Do you have face veils? Give me a few face veils in red.” As she instructed the shopkeeper, she picked out a few more pieces for Guan Xi Lin before bringing out her silver and said: “Bill.”
“Little Jiu, you are not going to change?”
She smiled and said: “You change into the new clothes. The clothes I have on are neither torn nor tattered but just filthy. We’ll go find an inn later and I have a bath first before changing into them. Otherwise, I’ll just feel uncomfortable with the new clothes on.”
“That’s true as well.” Guan Xi Lin nodded and they set off looking for an inn.